it fits apple's philosophy perfectly, there are invisible walls when using their products, you will live in a prison with transparent walls when you enter their ecosystem, and you'll smash your head into them quite frequently.

nice thx! I got worried as the fans spun up even after initial sync, so I thought it would do a full sync of the whole blockchain - thanks for clarifying, now if there were an easy guide on how to point my electrum and/or my LN wallet(s) to the full node running on another machine in the same home-LAN, then the future can come :)
last time I checked pointing electrum to only sync with my 24/7 running full node, it looked like an ordeal, I would not have managed, too complicated.

I'm testing zap wallet on a mac, it seems like it is downloading the blockchain in the background, yet I can't find the folder it puts it - on another machine I have the whole blockchain (running a btc node) - how are implementations handling blockchain and remaining in sync? will they find the folder that I chose for my full-node and use it instead of downloading the chain into a different folder? would be a waste of space, time, and cpu cycles.

he never bought bcash..he got them like everyone else. all he is trying is to hype the price up from time to time to dump his BTC for a good return in BTC - he's a business man, he knows how to make money.

in these situations the market leans towards long and grinding bearmarkets, the purpose of them is to train newcomers and make people get work done instead of constantly celebrating ATH's. I think we have not yet seen the lows we need to see in order to find out who is really worthy of the hodl. a 60% drop with a quick recovery is not enough.

buy a little when it's low, buy a little when it goes lower, buy a little more when you think it can't go lower, but a little when it rises, buy a little more when it keeps rising, buy all that you formerly sold so you still make a profit when it keeps rising. bottom line, always buy a little. and sell when it looks like it goes to the moon, in hindsight, props to everyone selling at 19k...but who would have thought, everyone was already envisioning lambos ;) so maybe when you start thinking about lambos instead of worrying whether to sell or not, you should sell, and when you worry about price dropping further, probably buy.

many here like to be silent about the fact that these guys said many times they want to shut down sketchy ICOs which in their minds are unregistered securities. this would be the end of ICO scams and even vaporware, but wasn't that the fuel that fueled at least the ethereum bubble and to some extent the bitcoin bubble? makes price discovery a rather tough job..

I would not recommend people to sell now, but I would recommend to wait until worthless altcoins die and tether properly gets audited..I would also wait until the space finds some modesty instead of hyping people up about prices and the market. of course you got more USD worth of bitcoin than you are willing to lose, sell, but make sure you don't sell into USDT, and don't sell everything.

excessive gambling, value inflation and theft of mindspace cause lots of volatility, which in turn discredit the whole space, even though bitcoin itself is solid tech. meh, see you at 5k I guess..I think if we go low enough some altcoins will bend over and end. why would anyone buy shitcoin xyz if they lose 99% of value in a few weeks..

to be honest I did not bother researching them, but in my opinion there is only one good use for the rather inefficient tech that is distributed ledger, hash based cryptography, and it's decentralized money. smart contracts and all the bells and whistles can settle on this blockchain, but should do their work on a 2nd layer of bitcoin, if at all. as It currently looks bitcoin will only ever do money, and I really like the idea to stick to the basics. running all this and having an uptime of almost 10 years is NOT trivial. many assume it though.

back in august (at relatively low prices) it already felt bubbly, and all I asked myself was whether we make a s-curve or repeat history with a multi year breakdown. then I found out about how tether works and how well audited they are... /s and sodled quite a bit at 4k...not that I want it to go back to 4k or even lower, but I kind of expect it. for a whole year any negative news or criticism on bitcoin has been buried in a tsunami of hype.